News from November 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI ) along with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) issued the following joint statement regarding the International Trade Commission’s (ITC) investigation into India’s policies that discriminate against U.S. trade and investment...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on the status of the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program, established under the president’s health care law.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Nov. 5, 2015 BOS 2015-205. Employer name: Mass-Granite Inc., 49 Knox Trail, Acton, Massachusetts 01720. Reason for inspection: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration conducted a follow up inspection of the granite countertop manufacturer to verify the correction...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico- Superintendent Walter J. Chavez announced today the launching of the "100 Nights" program at the fortifications of Castillo San Felipe del Morro and Castillo San Cristobal beginning this Sunday, November 8th.The program will begin on November 8th and will run through Feb. 15...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MICHAEL CUTRER, age 39, of New Orleans, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to a one count Bill of Information charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to a fraudulent application he made to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) for financial assistance in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Scottish Citizen Indicted for Twitter-Based Stock Manipulation Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Carol Bryant, AKA Carol Lawson, Mark Russell, and Anyssa Hall were charged with conspiracy to file false claims, wire fraud, theft of public money, aiding and abetting, and aggravated identity theft announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas McMahon.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: The total number of U.S. helicopter accidents has steadily declined over the past 10 years, but the aviation community has not made sustainable progress in reducing the number of fatal accidents. In response to the Federal Aviation Administration’s 2013-2014 post-crash fire and blunt force trauma study ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today released the following statement regarding the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the following remarks in opposition of H.R. 597, legislation to reauthorize the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Darrell L. Duncan, age 34, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced Wednesday, November 4, 2015, in federal court by Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. after his guilty plea of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RYAN BINNER, age 43, of Hammond, pled guilty today to violations of the Federal Controlled Substances and Federal Gun Control Acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott S. Allen, Jr., who handled the case, stated that on Nov. 13, 2013, law enforcement officers searched the defendant’s residence on Chippewa St. in Buffalo. Officers recovered a laptop computer being used by Marlnee. A subsequent forensic examination determined that the computer contained 952 images of child pornography. Some of the images depicted children under the age of 12 years old. Some of the images also contained depictions of violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH -- A Mercer County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - James Newland, age 30, was indicted today for moving to Gloversville, New York, from California without updating his sex offender registration, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - Taj Tesfaye Hayes, 39, of Oceanside, California, was sentenced today in Billings federal court to prostitution-related racketeering charges. On July 31, Hayes pleaded guilty to one count of interstate travel in aid of racketeering. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Watters Sentenced Hayes to 18 months incarceration and 2 years supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Updated November 5, 2015 at 12: 5 pm ET
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Human activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use, influenced specific extreme weather and climate events in 2014, including tropical cyclones in the central Pacific, heavy rainfall in Europe, drought in East Africa, and stifling heat waves in Australia, Asia, and South America, according...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Yuba City man pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner of the Eastern District of California, Special Agent in Charge Ryan Spradlin...
